Never saw much of these myself--Marvel didn't really do them by the 70s, apart from Rick Jones, who used to hang with the Hulk and later with Captains America and Marvel. But Batman had Robin, and didn't some of the other DC heroes have young partners as well until relatively recently? My impression is that kids don't like them, at least my kids. Robin in the Titans interests them, Robin as Batman's little buddy does not.
But I never thought about it much until recently, when I acquired a few reprint books of Golden Age comics., including reprints of issues 1-4 and 6-10 of Captain America from the 1940s. Out of the nine covers for those issues, seven feature a captive, bound Bucky being rescued by CA. That doesn't sound like something a kid would find all that appealing, does it? Regardless of why they're reading the books.
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